Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 220. (Read 62776 times)

I confess that I don't have an idea how the average fan goes about visiting tournaments like the World Cup. Are they applying for one game and then go there and spend some time in the country or city? Probably yes because can you even apply for multiple games? If you do, is it likely that you win several ticket lotteries and how do you know which one you are going to win?

When a World Cup game is played in California and a fan from Europe wants to attend that game, a long-haul flight has to be booked to in order to watch that game assuming that the fan won the ticket lottery beforehand.

What exactly is the problem now with three countries co-hosting a World Cup? If a fan from Mexico wants to watch the final and the final takes place in the US, the fan has to travel to the US the same way a fan from Europe has to travel to the US. What is the difference in the planning procedure for any fan from any place when they decide to watch a game?

Visa could be one reason, but I think that the US won't make it unnecessarily hard to get one. If a fan from Washington wants to watch a game in California, that is a hell of a ride. Except for the visa procedure, traveling from Washington to California is at least as exhausting as traveling from Mexico to California unless you are from the deepest South of Mexico.

I dont think that fans will have to visit all three country to watch their teams play during preliminaries, playoff and finals. Take IIHF World Championship 2023 as example, it is held in two countries also, two countries that are separated by sea, but finals will be held only in one country. It might even be, that during preliminaries, playoff and finals, two team will not even leave country.

Watching sports live is always expensive, but such tournaments happens only once a year or two, so you have plenty of time to save money, do booking research and get best offer. Average class watch such tournaments at home. I think an average fan can afford only few tickets, but only wealthy person visit all games, so visas, accommodation and tickets wont be problem for him.

I think for events in these 3 countries of course the participating countries will provide convenience whether it's visa requirements during the world cup, so there's no problem for that anyway if everything is complicated then it won't be held for this world cup event in 3 countries, it's just In my opinion, it is impossible for the organizers to make complicated permits and requirements for world cup spectators.

So there's no need to worry about permits and visa requirements because of course FIFA will also prepare easy access for spectators to enjoy this world cup event which is being held in 3 countries at once.

In fact, the details for hosting the world and which games are going to be hosted in which countries is not been officially announced yet and I think there is the possibility for any country to play only one country that's how the team won't have to visit three countries to play the gages and the fan should visit all the three countries too.

I went back to read the official rules. Things have changed!

In Korea-Japan 2002, there were 3 countries that qualified automatically: South Korea and Japan as hosts, and France as the current champion (they won France 1998).

In the past, when a country won the world cup, they qualified automatically for the next world cup, but that is no longer the case:


Brazil ended up winning the Korea-Japan 2002 tournament, but they didn't qualify directly for the 2006 world cup(they still qualified through the normal channel though).

Also, there used to be an extra qualifying slot for the host country. For example, Brazil hosted the 2014 World Cup, so they qualified directly.

So, for the 2014 World Cup CONMEBOL had 4.5 slots, but 6 countries qualified. Brazil as hosts, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile as directly qualified in the tournament, and Uruguay after the playoffs.

Until now, the hosting country used to get an extra slot, but for the next world cup this will change:


So, yeah, theoretically speaking, if they have the 4 countries in CONMEBOL hosting the 2030 world cup, they would only have 2 direct slots left (and an extra one for playoffs for a maximum total of 7 countries qualified). Although it would be a strange qualifier then, I'm sure they will change the rules again by that time, as they keep doing it.

That is not a fair argument. There are millions of football fans around the world, who want to watch the world cup matches in person rather than on television. And conducting the tournament in three countries instead of one complicates things for them. The last time world cup was co-hosted was in 2002, when the matches were staged in Japan and South Korea. Even then, the distance between venues were manageable. But that is not the case with USA and Canada. Boston to San Francisco is close to 5,000 km and even by air it will take 6-7 hours. And then there are visa requirements to travel in the US. Getting a US visa can be very difficult.

The advantage is that of the three countries that will host the World Cup in 2026, two of them already have experience in how to host a major event such as the World Cup, and the United States will be the host for the second time as well as Mexico, even for the U.S. they have the experience in terms of hosting another event that is not less big because it is followed by many countries that are the Olympics. The experience that these two countries have will make the organization well organized so that it is comfortable not only for the spectators who will be present in their country to watch the match but especially for the players who will attend and play because they need it to be able to focus and maximize in every performance.

Of the three countries that will be the organizers, I think only the national team of Mexico and the United States will be able to gain a lot at this big event later, so it is very likely for both of them to get to the quarter-finals, while Canada will be a little different fate and if they want to a good thing they must make their national team grow from now on so that they can compete more later, but I am pretty sure they as the host will get a little ease in the draw and the support of the public will give the opportunity to these three countries to compete with the other countries in favor.

Why do you have to visit 3 countries?, I think if you intend to watch the world cup matches live because your country's national team will play, just look at the group phase where your country will be based camp, after that if they can advance to the next round then the United States is the choice because this country has a larger portion of organizing matches than the other two countries, but if you don't have the funds for that then it's actually not a problem because matches will always be broadcast live and that's enough in my opinion because I will like that too.

What a load of BS?

If the joint bid from Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay wins the hosting rights for FIFA World Cup 2030, then a total of only 6 teams will participate in that tournament from the CONMEBOL region. Out of the 48 participants, 6 are supposed to come from this confederation. And if they win hosting rights, then 4 out of the 6 slots will be reserved for the hosts, while the non-hosting countries within CONMEBOL will participate in the qualifier tournament from which the remaining 2 slots will be decided. So let's be clear about it. A total of 6 teams will be from CONMEBOL, and not 10 as you are claiming.

very right - I agree to what is mentioned by you
the country should be rich and they should love soccer - I think Canada and americans are not much bigger fans than Arabs - for Arab scorr is their life line

IT will be surly very expensive to have visas and accomodation at three different countries
People would visit a place of two - most of the people will be middle class like me they won't be able to afford the 3 country stay

Like most people mentioned before, we need a combination of these two together. It has to be a football nation like England, and it has to be rich like Qatar, that would give them a great advantage. I mean surely England could also spend as much, but then they would have to cut it from something else, and that ain't ideal, or they would have to print and value would drop again and they do not want that.

All in all there is a situation to handle and they can't really handle it all. I personally hope that the best thing to do in this case is to let Fifa keep deciding it and see which one feels the best .You can't have it at the same nation over and over again anyway, which means there should be a few nations that gets better eventually with some chances to host it.

You are wrong, there are many other rich countries that can spend much more and invest for the next world cup even more than Qatar, the only positive thing about the Qatar world cup was the shinning stadiums and the money the spent on it, while in Qatar the visitors were not happy because the rules they had in their country and they didn't make any exceptions for the world cup.

Yes, the only reason why they are difficult to touch is because there is no authentic evidence that can be used to touch them even deeper. However, the name of a crime will gradually be revealed, as for example what happened recently which ended with the dismissal of the FIFA CEO. Something like this would definitely smell no matter how well they hid it. Because when their CEO did it, it would be very doubtful if the other members did not know about and feel the bribes they received.



True, Qatar prepared very well and they spent a lot of money to make the World Cup a success. In terms of finances there is no doubt for Qatar because they have a lot of budget. They are serious about being the host, even with the problems that occur which I think are very common things on a very big stage like the World Cup which is the biggest party of the world's footballers.

But one of the reasons why Qatar World Cup will go down in history is that Qatar has spent a lot of money to build the World Cup stadiums. The stadiums that look beautiful and eye-popping. But I don't think any other country can host such a big World Cup. But yes, it is expected that we will see some new arrangements.

There's no doubt that there are a lot more corrupt individuals inside the FIFA council, they are like elites on their own which makes them hard to touch if there are no concrete evidence that points towards them. We may have no solid proof about it but we can actually say that there are miracles happening behind the scenes but at one point, we cannot really blame them as there will be no miracles if countries that are so eager to host a World Cup will just take the process fairly without using their connections and money.

In fact, the way we're discussing the next World Cup right now, I think it's getting a little too much. Because it is very difficult to understand what the world will be like in the next World Cup and how inflation will be like. But I believe FIFA authorities will do something great for us.

in my country visa fee for america is approx $100 dollars and the currency rate is very high not everyone can afford going to the USA likewise visa fee for Canada is double the American visa fee. So I dont think most of the fans will be able to make to USA for world cup

that is not correct - people had a chance to travel to Qatar and they really cherished the moment of traveling to Qatar for fun and to explore the country
there are many thoughts behind the FIFA we are unable to identify it

obviously - the countries would have been working on this after the end of last world cup
the rich countries like Qatar have made the new infrastructure and then they have gifted all that infrastructure to the poor countries - isn't it interesting?

World Cup hosting is not a small job and before FIFA will choose a country to host the world they already hfirst-handhand knowledge of the capacity of the countries to meet up with FIFA standards in terms of stadiums,  training grounds and hotels etc, and many more is what consists in the consultation period before to the start of any world cup and regardless who spend the money to keep the thing up to date between the FIFA body or host countries it's also important to note the unilateral standard practice as covered in the final law.

We have 3 years before the next world cup,  but then plans are already on the way to put everything in place before the start of next year.